It looks great but I would not be able to use it as-is because different kinds of elements (button, textbox, dropdown) look too similar. I'd rather make an ugly but usable site than the other way around.
Concrete.css
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#52Refreshingly simple, almost to the point of an aversion to other minimalist competitors like Milligram. I like it. As someone else said here, it brings my mind to an alternative web with browsers that had a better default and standardized stylesheet. Oh how I wish for this. Can't just Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari all just adopt this one? Setting up no-CSS sites would be a more sensible thing and we would have less n…
To be fair, to create a web that has no need for Gemini I think no-JS sites would take us much further than no-CSS. It's relatively easy to disable CSS (Firefox: View - Page style - No style), and generally not much will actually break. But disabling JS would more than often break the website functionality completely.
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#53I'm really not a fan of brutalism (in UI and in architecture) and I think that our monitors have 24-bit color depth for a reason. Such extreme simplification of UI is not the way I think.
(Microsoft has attempted this in Metro, but quickly withdrew from this idea)
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#54I've been loving classless CSS frameworks and have been using them extensively for personal projects for around four years now.
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#551. Modify the base font-size to 62.5% so that 1.6rem = 16px. That is not a given as it depends on browser settings and it generally doesn't mix well with other CSS that might not make the same assumption.
I borrowed this from Milligram[0] because it seemed like a sane thing to do at the time. Would your recommendation be to not anything to the base font-size and adjust the REM sizes accordingly? [0] https://github.com/milligram/milligram/blob/d895f179623b56f3...
Yes.
In relation to this since you're using rem for borders and progress bar height, it's all going to scale along with browser-defined font size. You might not want that, as people typically increase this setting to have just the text larger.
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#56Oh wow, crazy to see my project on HN! Thank you soap-3 for submitting it :D I really appreciate all of your suggestions, I'll patch the issues up asap.
Please, please pretty please, can we stop with the automatic switching to dark mode if the system uses a dark theme? Chrome UI elements and webpages serve fundamentally different purposes, and have wildly different readability needs! At a minimum, please provide a way to switch between mode so that we can have some design granularity back. Thanks!
I suspect this is a problem for your browser? The CSS media query only makes sense as 'prefers dark webpages' — there'd be no point having it, if it means 'the browser theme is dark and it doesn't matter what the user prefers in terms of web pages'.
Your browser should offer you a setting to choose whether you prefer dark webpages or not (SEPARATELY from the browser theme). Not sure if Chrome currently does but if this annoys you, it would be worth looking for.
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#57water.css[0] and pico.css[1] are some of my favorite classless css libraries. There's a full list of them here: https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css [0]: https://watercss.kognise.dev/ [1]: https://picocss.com/
Vote for mvp.css [0] here.
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#58Not sure I would make the "disabled" buttons stand out more brightly than a regular button. In fact I would swap the colors of those buttons, or maybe make the disabled button greyed out.
Agreed. One thing that a lot of people miss when attempting to comply with WCAG contrast guidelines is that disabled controls are specifically exempt. With good reason, IMO — too much contrast and it’s not clear that an element is disabled.
And yet younguns with good eyes and no color blindness will be able to read the text, and others won’t.
If you let a designer put grey on grey once, they’ll do it 10,000,000 times.
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#59Looks fine to me apart from the buttons. But if we're talking about "classless", some _has_ to mention Marx[1].